Web Scraping Using R

This is an instructor-led web scraping workshop using R, with a focus on web scraping (i.e. relatively light on R).

Created by Sebastian Karcher

Originally created for a workshop at the University of Cincinnati, July 24, 2018.

• Updated for a workshop at Syracuse University, October 3, 2019
• Updated for Introduction to Data Science, Syracuse University, May 2021
• Updated for Introduction to Data Science, Syracuse University, April 2022
• Updated for Introduction to Data Science, Syracuse University, April 2024

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share alike (CC-BY-SA license.

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Web Structure Basics
• Your First Steps in R
• Scraping a Single Page
• Looping through Multiple Pages
• “Data munging” – Cleaning up Your Import
• Data analysis